[MaC] A mishap on the way to the party: Evangeline & Marion

[Pruehs, Ree M.]

> >> >The clanking of the lift announced its arrival from the 
> floor below.  
> >> >As it halted, Vangie could see that Marion Mauberly was 
> inside.  She 
> >> >smiled when she saw Vangie and opened the iron grille for her.
> >> >
> >> >"Is Philip coming?" she asked.
> >>
> >> "He'll still be a bit....said he'd take the stairs," Vangie said,
> >> stepping
> >> in.  =Stubborn pride,= she thought, but not unfondly. She 
> smiled at the
> >> younger woman. "How lovely you look!"
> >>
> >> She closed the grille again, and the elevator creaked upward.
> >
> > "And you look just like the Duchess of Windsor," Marion 
> replied, and 
> > added on a teasing note, "Well worth giving up a kingdom for."

Vangie chuckled. "Perhaps half a kingdom..."

> > As the lift slowly ascended to the floor above, she did a quick 
> > rummage through her own gold-and-black clutch purse.  "Oh, good, I 
> > didn't forget my pills.  It would be a bore to have to go down and 
> > fetch them."
> >
> > Vangie was aware that Marion suffered from occasional 
> migraines, and 
> > habitually carried a tube of little blue pills.
> 
> And then the lift stopped.  Abruptly.
> 
> And suspended between two floors.

"OH!" said Vangie.

<tag Marion, anyone who notices there's a problem with the lift>